These books are filled with deaths, exiles, and the terror of seeking truth in a culture that wants to hide it
Alice Evelyn Yang on the challenge of seeing your parents as people and the role of folklore in her debut novel, “A Beast Slinks Toward Beijing”
“Notebooks” by Imogen Clarke, recommended by Willem Marx for Electric Literature
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SupportThese authors examine the absurd, expensive, and tragic reality of navigating the death industrial complex
George Saunders’s new novel examines the line between sympathy and complicity
Emily Nemens’s “Clutch” explores the ups and downs of longstanding, and long-distance, friendships
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“Notebooks” by Imogen Clarke, recommended by Willem Marx for Electric Literature
“Steam,” flash fiction by Jean-Luke Swanepoel
“That Unfamiliar Night” from WITH THE HEART OF A GHOST by Lim Sunwoo, translated and recommended by Chi-Young Kim
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